More Firsts

This past week Henry has experienced a few more firsts. At his last doc appointment they gave me the green light to start rice cereal anytime between now and 6 months. However, he said he seemed to be pretty close since he was really interested in watching us eat and the moment he started to grab or open his mouth when we were eating we should give it a try. Well sure enough he has capped out his ounces per feeding of bottles (8 oz) and started grabbing our food. So Sunday we gave it a try and he did so good. We are now on day 4 of rice cereal and I think I am going to give it to him for dinner today to see if that helps him sleep longer. There are a lot of mixed review whether this will help longer sleep or not but I guess we will find out for ourselves. However, Henry has been sleeping really well. I typically get him down around 9pm and he sleeps until 4am now. Then eats goes right back to sleep and will sleep until 7am. I think we are getting really close to him sleeping through the night. Can't wait!

The other big adventure we had this week is we started Little Gym. Henry is in the Bugs Group (4 month - 10 month old and a parent). We had soooo much fun! I can't wait for Monday to get here so we can go again. I really learned a lot of new ideas to help his development and simply play together. I also got to meet some new moms and dads and definitely can see that over time we will likely make some play date friends. There was one little boy in particular that Henry and I both seemed to gravitate to him and his mom. I hope we get to see them again this week and make new friends. And, we love the instructor Ms. Shannon. She is pretty amazing with the little ones and even better she knows my husband so I hope Henry gets some extra attention. ;o)

Eating Rice Cereal for the First Time

Getting ready to get started....

My first bite...

Open wide...

Holding my spoon with mom...

All done with a messy face....Full belly = very happy baby